5 Styles of Medical IntuitionCan the body really talk? Medical intuitives believe that it can. More so, they can hear, sense, see and dialogue with this unique companion that we call the body. How can they do it? How can the body communicate with others who may not even know us? This is a question that has been asked and studied in numerous ways over centuries. Indeed, energy is everywhere. Energy can be measured, felt, communicated and changed by interacting with other energy sources. So why has it been so hard for us to imagine that the body can communicate with us energetically as well?
Medical intuition is a field that is recognized and growing as a way to tune into the body's wisdom. In all fields, it is important that we honor the founders of the work. The actual term “Medical Intuition” was coined several years ago by Dr. Norm Shealy, a renowned M.D. and advocate of holistic health while training a gifted intuitive, Caroline Myss. Both are pioneers in the field of what many of us now refer to as medical intuition. While this field of study is relatively new by way of public and professional use, many healing practitioner, intuitives, psychics, channellers and people in general have been “tuning” in for eons. So how are they tuning in and what exactly are they tuning into?
If you asked 100 medical intuitives how they do their work, you would likely get as many different answers. Consider for a moment in simple terms, that the body is an electrical system. Both the body itself and the energy field surrounding the body are electrically charged. Within this charge, or energy field, all information about it's past and present and some even believe its future are stored. The body remembers incidents, feelings and thoughts and stores information about outside influences as well. People who are intuitive or have trained themselves to pay attention to energy may perceive what the body is communicating to them in a variety of ways. Some may hear, see or sense words, symbols, pictures, movies, see x-ray images or experience physical sensations within their own body.
5 Different Styles of Perceiving
While there are many ways medical intuitives describe the way that they work, there appears to be five distinct styles of perceiving the information that the body shares.
1) Some medical intuitives perceive information relating to a client's body or health while doing what is commonly referred to as an intuitive or psychic reading. They may be focusing on their client's energy field and specific areas randomly present themselves or information comes forth when it is queried. How can information like this just come up you might ask? In our energy field, many blueprint memories or conditions are very energetically “loud” or electrically charged. Strong emotions, trauma, physical injury, accidents, sickness, disease and even strong beliefs work their way to the forefront of the energy field and can often be sensed or perceived by sensitive people.2) A second way of perceiving information about or from the body is through channelling information from guides. Many medical intuitives are receiving the information from the body from a third party. These guides are most commonly people, animals or other energies who may be in spirit or do not communicate with words. In this style it is the third party, their guide, who from their place of higher wisdom reflects upon the client and their body and communicates the information.
3) Many practitioners who work with the body in a healing session find that information literally jumps out at them as they interact in a healing fashion with their clients' body. Some of these medical intuitives use their insight gained as part of their healing tools, while others use the information gathered only.
4) A fourth style of medical intuitive is trained to follow a specific system or “map” as they approach the body. For example, they may use a checklist to move throughout the body looking for areas that draw their attention, or have an energy blockage. These practitioners then focus their attention in a deliberate fashion using specific tools with which they have been trained. Many look at the body under the lens of pre-established maps such as auras, chakras, meridian lines, archetypes, colors or fields of study that assign specific emotions to designated areas or organs in the body. This is very much the style of pioneers Drs. Norm Shealy and Caroline Myss. This style is rooted in a medical model that seeks to identify key problem areas, provide diagnoses measurable conditions and can often provide recommendations for treatment.
5) A fifth distinct style of medical intuitives are trained to scan the body in a systematic fashion yet discipline themselves not to used established maps or modalities to interpret what the body is sharing. These practitioners use the physiology as an entry point, listen, see, attend and follow whatever shows up to completion. Here the body paints a portrait of what is so. These practitioners report what they observe, experience or hear as each unique body provides. In this style, sourcing where the body-messages are coming from is key. This is the style used in Medical Intuition: Lori Wilson's Total Body IntuitionTM which is rooted strongly in a psychology/social work model. Here the practitioner attends and follows the body with a specificity that often uncovers root causes of conditions that can be useful to the client's healing team.
Of course, this leaves at least 95 more styles and definitions of medical intuition for you to explore! Many medical intuitives combine information gathering with healing or recommendations. Many use it strictly as an information-gathering tool. This work can be done both in person or over a distance.
Be A Discerning Consumer
If you are considering engaging the services of a medical intuitive, do be an educated consumer. Currently this is not a regulated field and it is very easy to be impressed by an intuitive practitioner who can pick up on things in your body and your life. Ask many questions. Have a clear understanding of how they are doing their work. Ask how they are receiving the information, what is their background and training and what it their knowledge base in physiology. If they are providing diagnoses or recommendations, are they trained to do this? Are the recommendations coming from your own body or their own practitioner knowledge base or personal preferences?
Be a discerning consumer as we all work together to bring credibility, research and professional and ethical standards to this exciting field. You deserve direct and clear information from your body. Medical intuition can provide important pieces of your wellness puzzle. Regardless of the style of medical intuition, do take the information gained through this work to the members of your own healing team to explore what pieces of the puzzle hold value for them. Ultimately trust yourself. After all, you have lived with your body 24 hours a day since you were born.
Copyright © Lori Wilson 2003
This article has been excerpted from articles originally written by Lori Wilson for:
L.Foulkes, UK
The Edge Newspaper, Kansas, March 2003
Omega Source, Issue 11, Fall 2003
